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The Battle of the Boyne is a 1778 historical painting by the Anglo-American artist Benjamin West.It portrays the Battle of the Boyne which took place in Ireland in 1690. West's depiction of William of Orange on his white horse became the iconic image of liberation from Catholic Ireland; the painting was widely copied and distributed throughout the nineteenth century.
The Battle of the Boyne (Irish: Cath na Bóinne IPA: [ˈkah n̪ˠə ˈbˠoːn̠ʲə]) took place in 1690 between the forces of the deposed King James II, and those of King William III who, with his wife Queen Mary II (his cousin and James's daughter), had acceded to the Crowns of England and Scotland [b] in 1689.
The Siege of Derry, like the Battle of the Boyne, is part of Northern Irish Protestant folklore. [72] [73] The siege is commemorated by two parades: the Shutting-of-the-Gates Parade and the Relief-of-Derry Parade. A view of Derry in the 19th century. Walker's Pillar figures prominently in the centre. [74]
In Northern Ireland, murals in Unionist or Loyalist areas of the country often depict William and his success at the Battle of the Boyne. The first mural of William was painted in Derry in the 1920s and depicted the Battle of the Boyne and his ending of the siege of Derry. King William is the most common theme of Loyalist murals in Northern ...
A sketch of the Old St Paul's Cathedral done by Jan's father Thomas Wyck in 1673.. Jan Wyck was born on 29 October 1652, in Haarlem, then part of the Dutch Republic.The son of Thomas Wyck (1616-1677), also a Dutch painter, it is assumed that his father taught him to paint, although little is actually known of his early life.
The former Boyne Obelisk (c.1890), Oldbridge, County Louth, Ireland. Here below is placed the body of Frederick, Duke of Schomberg, killed at the Boyne, A.D. 1690. The dean and the chapter fervently sought, again and again, that the heirs of the Duke see to the erection of a monument in memory of (their) parent.
Meinhardt Schomberg was created Duke of Leinster for his part in the Battle on 30 June 1690 [6] and, after taking part in the abortive Siege of Limerick in August 1690, he became a British subject through naturalization by Act of Parliament on 25 April 1691. [7]
William Montgomery (August 3, 1736 – May 1, 1816) was a colonial-American patriot, pioneer, soldier, public servant, and abolitionist.. As a revolutionary patriot, he helped the Province of Pennsylvania declare independence from the British Empire, establish the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, [1] and save the American Revolution during the Ten Crucial Days. [2]